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Is it really nec. to have all of that at the very begining! Do you know how much of that theyre gonna lose, or someone will borrow and not return. I wish school supplies could be based on the nec. ONLY! and let the school provide a little more! back to school is SO expensive. Not looking forward to that aspect of it!

Nope... Our school supplies just about everything. For small kids they need a note book and pencil. For middle & highschool it varies depending on the classes and needs of each of them... But it's still rare that it's anything beyond a few folders, notebooks and pens or pencils...

I'd like to know what the heck they need all that stuff for. When I was in kindergarten, we needed a box of crayons, pencils, a pair of scissors and a pencil box. When my kids were in private school, just a couple of years ago, all they needed for kindergarten was scissors, crayons, pencils, a pencil box, glue sticks, 50 counters and Kleenex.